At 05:06 PM 7/21/2006, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Jim Lux wrote:
That's sort of the model, though.. Except with the disk drive built in.
There ARE small network attached storage devices available, intended for
the home server market, but last time I looked (about a year ago), they
all seemed to require loading a special application on your PC or MAC for
access, probably so they could implement some sort of future Digital
Rights Management. The market is so competitive, I can't imagine that
they'd make money with the hardware alone, so I assume their idea would
be to get decent penetration, and then sell the capability to, for
instance, store (legally) downloaded music and/or video in connection
with a third party content provider. They all had quasi whizbang media
player type software that ran in connection with their thing (store your
MP3s on our server and play them on your PC!).
Righty-ho, but if you get two little paperback USB drives and work for a
minute or two with duct tape, you can accomplish "built in". Or if you
prefer you could put a swatch of velcro on the sides of the slug and
bottom of the drive -- that would make it a bit simpler to remove them.
Duct tape.. now you're talking!.. baling wire might not be bad too.
Actually, you'd also need a little battery pack/wall wart to feed 5V to the
slug (which I assume comes with it) and that would feed power to the USB2
disk drive..
Hmmm.. a weekend project lurks... it's 105 degrees here, so a nice indoor
project has real appeal.
Jim
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